Study of RR Lyrae stars in MW substructures Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wang F.
  2. Zhang H.-W.
  3. Xue X.-X.
  4. Huang Y.
  5. Liu G.-C.
  6. Zhang L.
  7. Yang C.-Q.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We identify substructures of the Galactic halo using 3003 type ab RR Lyrae stars with six-dimensional position-velocity information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope and the Gaia Early Data Release 3. Based on this information, we define the separation of any two of the stars in the integrals of motion space and we identify substructures by utilizing the friends-of-friends algorithm. We identify members belonging to several known substructures: the Sagittarius stream, the Gaia- Enceladus-Sausage (GES), the Sequoia and the Helmi streams. In addition to these known substructures, there are three other substructures possibly associated with globular clusters NGC 5272, 6656 and 5024, respectively. Finally, we also find three remaining unknown substructures, one of which has large angular momentum and a mean metallicity -2.13 dex, which may be a new substructure. As for the GES, we find that it accounts for a large part of substructures in the inner halo and the apocentre distance is in the range 10-34 kpc, which suggests that the GES is mainly distributed in the inner halo. The near one-third proportion of the GES and the peak value of 20 kpc of the apocentre distance suggest that the GES could account for the break in the density profile of the Galactic halo at the Galactocentric distance ~20-25 kpc. The similarity when comparing the kinematic properties of the GES with the Hercules-Aquila Cloud and Virgo Overdensity suggests that the three substructures may have similar origins.

Keywords
  1. variable-stars
  2. milky-way-galaxy
  3. chemically-peculiar-stars
  4. astrometry
  5. stellar-distance
  6. radial-velocity
  7. proper-motions
  8. metallicity
  9. photometry
  10. spectroscopy
  11. visible-astronomy
  12. infrared-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022MNRAS.513.1958W
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/513/1958
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/513/1958
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.75131958

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https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/513/1958/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/513/1958/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/513/1958/table1?

History

2025-02-24T15:49:58Z
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2025-02-24T15:49:58Z
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2025-03-07T20:14:33Z
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